Need I say more than this? I defined the suppliers of corruption services way back in 2007 as: 1. Those governments who supply the secrecy
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Is the recovery over?
I have never believed we were going to have anything even remotely like a V-shaped economic recovery. That’s not to say that I did not
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Robert Peston’s claim that Johnson and Sunak are socialists has to be one of the most stupid claims of this crisis
Robert Peston posted this on Twitter yesterday: I despaired. Peston is meant to be a political commentator. One has to presume that he has some
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Why is the Department of Health and Social Care promoting tax abuse?
As the Guardian has noted, the Department of Health is looking for a new vice president of operations: Let’s ignore for a mom ent the
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Is the UK out of control?
A rating agency thinks that the UK is out of control and that’s a reason for them to downgrade UK government debt. Right now the
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FT Alphaville is convinced on MMT
I wrote about Stephen King’s article on MMT in the FT this morning. Soon after posting it I sent a link to FT Alphaville. And
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The Chancellor’s support for people suffering new lockdowns is of a type only a hedgefund manager doing an internship at the Treasury as Chancellor could have devised
The demand for government support for business is going up – and the schemes are coming to an end
This data was published today by the government. It shows the demand for so-called ‘bounce back loans’ that have been made available to help businesses
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The case for MMT: or why the FT is wrong to publish ill-informed arguments against it
Stephen King, who is HSBC’s Senior Economic Adviser and author of ‘Grave New World’ has an article in the FT today under the title ‘The
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